Economic globalization

The outsourced industry is among the best employers in Bulgaria. The outsourcing sector in Bulgaria accounts for 2.4% of the country's labor market, employing more than 67,300 people, and by 2021 their number is expected to exceed 79,000 people. This shows the data from the last annual report on the development of the Bulgarian Outsourcing Association's industry, quoted by technews.bg.

The 1st Southeast European Innovation, Technology and Sourcing Summit took place with the active support of the Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion Agency and with great interest from the business.

Greek property owners are among Europe's most heavily burdened by taxes, according to a study by Washington-based think tank the Tax Foundation that examines the tax burden on ownership and its ratio to all tax revenues.

While the framework cooperation agreement, which led to the Left indirectly backing the appointment of the new cabinet last September, will remain only initialled for now, the plan for 2019 is proceeding from initials to signatures as a key vote on the 2019 budget is due on Wednesday.

In the pre-election period that Greece has entered, one hears plenty of grand declarations from politicians. Some, for instance, are about how to defeat neoliberalism, and others concern safeguarding the endangered European culture.

One thing was certain at this year's World Economic Forum: Davos and its values are in a state of deep crisis. The decline had become evident even before the start of the annual conference that sees the global elite gather in this lofty village in the snowy Swiss Alps, thanks to a letter penned and published by the WEF's founder, Klaus Schwab.

The world's 26 richest people own the same wealth as the poorest half of humanity, Oxfam said Monday, urging governments to hike taxes on the wealthy to fight soaring inequality, reports AFP. 

COLLABORATION IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY BETWEEN BULGARIA AND PAKISTAN IN TERMS OF EACH COUNTRY'S PEDIGREE

Event organized by Embassy of Pakistan, Sofia

New Democracy's shadow finance minister Apostolis Vesyropoulos said the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) 2018 report on tax policy reforms that shows Greece leading among its members in the increase of tax burdens in 2015-2016 is a "slap in the face" for the government.

Members of the self-styled anarchist group Rouvikonas walked into the Austrian embassy in Athens on Friday to protest the approval of a 12-hour working day by lawmakers in Vienna.

After they threw flyers, the members of the group left the building.